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     1.4 +CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)
     1.5 +
     1.6 +This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
     1.7 +protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the
     1.8 +native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. The CIFS
     1.9 +protocol is fully supported by file servers such as Windows 2000 (including
    1.10 +Windows 2003, Windows 2008, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which
    1.11 +provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating
    1.12 +systems). Limited support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is
    1.13 +provided as well.
    1.14 +
    1.15 +The module also provides optional support for the followon protocols for CIFS
    1.16 +including SMB3, which enables useful performance and security features.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +The cifs module provides an advanced network file system client for mounting to
    1.19 +CIFS compliant servers. It includes support for DFS (hierarchical name space),
    1.20 +secure per-user session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, safe
    1.21 +distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, Unicode and other
    1.22 +internationalization improvements.
    1.23 +
    1.24 +Use this module if you need to mount to Samba or Windows from your machine.